Radeon RX 590
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($279) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners like the solid 1080p gaming performance and good value for its time. The common gripe is it runs hot and draws a lot of power compared to newer cards.
- Great 1080p gaming performance
- Runs cool and quiet
- Plays modern titles smoothly
- Reliable for its age
- Old architecture hurts efficiency
- Lackluster ray tracing support
- Only 8GB of VRAM
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 2,304
- TMUs
- 144
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2000 MHz
- Base clock
- 1469 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1545 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 7.119 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 7.119 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 49 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 222.5 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 175W
- Suggested PSU
- 350W
- Power connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 241 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2.131
Our verdict on the RX 590
An aging GCN card that was just a clock bump of the RX 580, running hot and drawing too much power for what it offered.
Get it if you need a cheap, reliable 1080p card for older games and don't care about modern features like ray tracing. Skip it if you want to play newer, demanding titles or prefer something that runs cooler and uses less power.
Buy it if…
- You play older DirectX 11 games and want high settings for cheap.
- You need a reliable backup card for a secondary gaming rig.
- You are building a budget 1080p system and find a great used deal.
Its place in the overall top
287 votes